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Ralzakark -> RE: Wellington Question (4/6/2015 7:39:39 AM)
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ORIGINAL: chris.munson
Pavel, do you know why they made Wellington's until the end of the war? The British discontinued many better bombers but kept this one plugging along.
I am not sure many 'better' bombers than the Wellington were taken out of production. The Wellington was kept in production in 1942 partly to keep up the number of front-line aircraft which could attack the Ruhr, as switching production to different types would have resulted in delays. The Wellington faded out of use in the Bomber Command main force later on, but continued in less threatening theatres as a proven, robust bomber. It was a versatile design and was used for reconnaissance and anti-submarine work, and was employed in odd tasks such as dropping flares to illuminate targets for intruders at night.
In games it is often easy to swap over production to entirely new models but in reality designs often continue in use long after better ones are available because they are already in quantity production and have demonstrated their usefulness. The P-40 is a good example.
'The Design and Development of Weapons' by Postan, Hay and Scott in the volume of the British official history which covers aircraft production, and you can get it as an ebook very cheaply now.
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